No doubt COVID kicked skimpflation into high gear, but this was already a pattern I noticed long before 2019. It seemed to generally coincide with the demise o

No doubt COVID kicked skimpflation into high gear, but this was already a pattern I noticed long before 2019. It seemed to generally coincide with the demise of retail in general, and of course the elimination of bank-teller interactions and emergence of ATM machines. All of these things are a blurry mess from my past...